VATICAN spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi has cautioned that the recent Oscar-win for ‘Spotlight’ and the lengthy deposition of Cardinal George Pell on institutional responses to clerical sex abuse could paint a false picture of how the Church has responded to the issue.

AUSTRALIAN victims/survivors of sexual abuse in Rome for Cardinal George Bell’s hearing by the Royal Commission met with a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, Jesuit Father Hans Zollner. Cardinal George Pell arranged the meeting so that survivors could share their ideas and concerns.